Been on a self-inflicted/enforced regimen for well over a month now to try and lose some weight, considering I'm only 20ish months away from my 40th birthday. Ugh, where the hell did my life go?!
Anyway, I'm eating breakfast these days, something I usually skip because of lazyness, and staying away from sweets. I did buy some nice dark chocolate the other day (Amedei 63% and 70%, and Michel Cluizel Noir au Grúe de Cacao; yummy stuff!), but I only treated myself to a few squares so far. Other than that, I've only had fruit and some raspberry jam with my breakfast oatmeal porridge that one might classify as sweet.
For dinner, I rely on those stupid little frozen ready-made meals that supermarkets are full of these days. They're around 370-400 grams which helps to keep track of how much exactly I put into my mouth, but it doesn't exactly help quench my hunger! I love to eat good food (bit of a gourmand, I'm afraid), and even though I've been doing this for quite a while now and my stomach has shrunk, I still feel damn hungry every single day. So it's been hell, haha!
Then again, it was like this last time I also went through this procedure, but that was ~8 years ago now. I went a bit overboard that time though with the dieting and gymming (dropped ~25kg in roughly 5 months), then became burnt out and lost interest, and eventually fell back in my old bad habits. So I try to take it easier now. Maybe get a longer, more lingering effect this time...
So, in an attempt to exercise a bit more (which I don't really do these days despite paying for gym membership every bloody month...meh) I've bought a Polar watch with a pulse sensor strap, and a GPS unit + USB reader to track how far I've walked. I don't run - I haven't the build for it currently just for starters, plus my knees and back aren't really up to it anymore, and I never liked to run anyway even when I was a kid. So I walk instead. There's a lot of areas good for walking around where I live, but I've been over them already so many times already both summer and winter, I thought this might help. Can't use my mountainbike either unfortunately - blasted knees. I've got uneven cartilage under my kneecaps, hurts like hell when I pedal uphill. No doctor I've talked to has been able to offer any remedy...
Anyway, the watch itself is pretty decent, it doesn't actually just have a simple timer or stopwatch function which is kinda annoying, but other than that it's nice. It does what it's supposed to, and can display a lot of different bits of information (which you can configure easily yourself). The accessories cost a friggin bundle though, and the blister pack of the GPS sliced into the pad of my right thumb when opening it; curse those damn finnish-chinese blister packs to hell!
The gadgets SEEM to work... Dunno if I can really trust the results the GPS thingy spits out though, but if it says I walked such-and-such a distance then I guess it's correct (unless it's an original pentium chip driving it. ), even though it feels weird if the route I took really is as long as the watch says it is.
So in closing, I didn't really want to say anything. Just wanted to vent some frustration over not being able to gorge on my favorite foods, lol! Anyone have any good healthy food recipes that are easy to prepare and feels filling and satisfying in the stomach? Hehe.
Anyway, I'm eating breakfast these days, something I usually skip because of lazyness, and staying away from sweets. I did buy some nice dark chocolate the other day (Amedei 63% and 70%, and Michel Cluizel Noir au Grúe de Cacao; yummy stuff!), but I only treated myself to a few squares so far. Other than that, I've only had fruit and some raspberry jam with my breakfast oatmeal porridge that one might classify as sweet.
For dinner, I rely on those stupid little frozen ready-made meals that supermarkets are full of these days. They're around 370-400 grams which helps to keep track of how much exactly I put into my mouth, but it doesn't exactly help quench my hunger! I love to eat good food (bit of a gourmand, I'm afraid), and even though I've been doing this for quite a while now and my stomach has shrunk, I still feel damn hungry every single day. So it's been hell, haha!
Then again, it was like this last time I also went through this procedure, but that was ~8 years ago now. I went a bit overboard that time though with the dieting and gymming (dropped ~25kg in roughly 5 months), then became burnt out and lost interest, and eventually fell back in my old bad habits. So I try to take it easier now. Maybe get a longer, more lingering effect this time...
So, in an attempt to exercise a bit more (which I don't really do these days despite paying for gym membership every bloody month...meh) I've bought a Polar watch with a pulse sensor strap, and a GPS unit + USB reader to track how far I've walked. I don't run - I haven't the build for it currently just for starters, plus my knees and back aren't really up to it anymore, and I never liked to run anyway even when I was a kid. So I walk instead. There's a lot of areas good for walking around where I live, but I've been over them already so many times already both summer and winter, I thought this might help. Can't use my mountainbike either unfortunately - blasted knees. I've got uneven cartilage under my kneecaps, hurts like hell when I pedal uphill. No doctor I've talked to has been able to offer any remedy...
Anyway, the watch itself is pretty decent, it doesn't actually just have a simple timer or stopwatch function which is kinda annoying, but other than that it's nice. It does what it's supposed to, and can display a lot of different bits of information (which you can configure easily yourself). The accessories cost a friggin bundle though, and the blister pack of the GPS sliced into the pad of my right thumb when opening it; curse those damn finnish-chinese blister packs to hell!
The gadgets SEEM to work... Dunno if I can really trust the results the GPS thingy spits out though, but if it says I walked such-and-such a distance then I guess it's correct (unless it's an original pentium chip driving it. ), even though it feels weird if the route I took really is as long as the watch says it is.
So in closing, I didn't really want to say anything. Just wanted to vent some frustration over not being able to gorge on my favorite foods, lol! Anyone have any good healthy food recipes that are easy to prepare and feels filling and satisfying in the stomach? Hehe.